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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1921
Page
8
A compact market note lists Liberty 3144 at $92.30 and second 4s at $95.66, with identifiers 446 BERR and 4148 at $95.94. It also records 44% 497.00, 44s at $95.08, and Victory figures 9100.02 and 4%s at $190.00.
Toledo market update reports closing grain and produce prices with futures for December 21. Cash and futures values shown for yellow corn, white corn, barley, oats, and seed tones alongside notes on futures for beans and flaxseed with varied monthly quotes.
Butter extra in tubs 49 49% c per lb. prints 50c. extra firsts 48 4 c. firsts 7 l% ec. seconds 89% 40c. Live fowls heavies 24 f. ducks 29 30c. turkeys 85c. Prices unchanged for items at Cleveland.
Market notes show light cattle receipts and slow activity. Prime cattle bring 7.40 to 7.50 with common around 7.38. calves at 11.00 to 11.50. Lambs and sheep weaker with good wethers 40.50 to 44.50, yearling lambs 10.00 to 10.50, heavy and light categories varied. Pigs at 7.90 to 8.00 and roughs around 5.50 to 6.00, stags 3.35 to 3.50.
Cincinnati and Chicago stockyards report mixed livestock activity. Cattle receipts about 6000 with steady demand. calves and sheep also steady to higher. hogs at Chicago about 20,000 with prices rising to around 6.75 to 7.25 for typical weights and heavy sows 5.65 to 6.50.
Cattle receipts 6000 with market steady. Prices: choice to prime cattle 6.75 to 10.20, medium to good 6.00 to 6.75, common 5.00 to 6.00, butcher cattle and heifers 38.50 to 8.00, cows 3.25 to 6. Bulls 3.16 to 6.76, canners and cutters 2.00 to 4.05, canner steers 82.70 to 6.70, feeder steers 6.00 to 8.60, stocker steers 4.25 to 6.58, stocker cows and heifers 2.75 to 4.75. Sheep receipts 7000 with market steady. Lambs 9.75 to 10.75, lambs culls and common 7.50 to 9.70, yearling wethers 7.25, ewes 29.5 to 25.25, cull to common ewes 1.50 to 12.50.
London reports a banquet scare when the Savoy Hotel thought the haggis had vanished. A kitchen error sent the delicacy to laundry. it was later recovered and returned to the festal table as bagpipes played.
In Dublin on December 21 the first recorded ship versus trolley-car collision occurred as the three-masted schooner Cymric waited to enter Ringstead Dock. A bowsprit swung over the bridge and struck the trolley, shattering windows and scaring passengers but causing no injuries as the trolley crossed the bridge safely.
Removal work starts on Peebles hill on the north side of Gallia street west of West avenue with about 5900 cubic yards of dirt to be hauled away.
Mrs. F. J. Hoffman an invalid was struck and robbed by a man in an army uniform at her Toledo home. The intruder asked for food and, after she offered help, demanded money and struck her when she turned to fetch it.
The assailant rendered a woman unconscious then fled through multiple rooms with a purse containing $9. Police sized up the scene but could not locate the suspect.
Nelsonville Red Cross chapter executive board will meet at Red Cross headquarters on Columbus Street at 7 p m Thursday evening December 22. The session is important and all committee members are urged to attend as several matters require decisions.
An advertisement claims Baalmann's Gas Tablets relieve gas pressure on the heart and lungs, easing anxious feelings and allowing deep breaths. Sold by Cline Pharmacy and other druggists in a yellow package for one dollar, from J Baalmann, Chemist, San Francisco.
Windows of the White House will be adorned with candles lighted for Christmas Eve. Mrs. Harding renewed an old New England custom, with arrangements completed this week for the candles and fixtures. President Harding helped establish the custom in Marion Ohio through a newspaper campaign.
Austin Stack Sinn Fein Home Affairs secretary states that permits to emigrate cannot be issued to persons who have left Ireland without them. The announcement appears in London dated December 21 and reflects government policy on controlled emigration.
The 7 505 Ohio country boys and girls who completed a year of extension work earned an average $18 05 on labor with a total nonlabor production value of $135474. Youths produced fruit vegetables meat bread garments pigs poultry calves wool and beet weights while clubs for dairy sheep and sow and litter contributed to livestock and wool yields. The Hopkins car testing system shows a driver oriented horsepower and efficiency meter linked to a dynamic drum friction test setup designed by SB Hypants COL saltingengineer.
Dealers and automobile owners returning from recent automobile gatherings in Columbus bring a report of a new service for auto owners nationwide. The item was introduced during the event and promises to aid in vehicle testing and maintenance awareness.
Ohio lawmakers urged President Harding to probe and overturn the board of managers decision that transfers Colonel F. E. Bury from Dayton soldiers home to Danville Illinois. Harding refused to interfere with the board’s action.
Ashland Kentucky December 21 1900 The American Rolling Mills Company bought the Ashland Iron and Mining Company holdings after both firms directors met to finalize the sale.
Cor nelius Coff killed Minnie Warrington and Bella Drake in a Philadelphia rooming house, then shot himself after wounding another woman. Police reported the deadly incident occurred today as Coff opened fire in the shared lodging facility.
Pittsburgh Dec 22 report says two bandits locked the cashier in the bank vault at Karthaus and escaped in an automobile after rifling the premises. The dramatic heist left the scene with all cash and valuables disturbed as police begin investigation.
The Severn Tunnel, the longest in England, will receive a new ventilation system featuring a 27 foot diameter fan that will revolve 100 times per minute.
H S Cruishank of Columbus employed at the Gambria Hocking Coal mine near Nelsonville was badly burned about the head when a trolley wire struck him. A motor jumped the track and knocked down the wire onto him. A three year old child of Mr and Mrs William Hammond died this morning from burns received yesterday. The clothing of the child caught fire from an open grate in the family home.
A special train carrying Ohio University students to Columbus struck an auto near Carroll. The car, driven by Amos Crist, was demolished and Crist was injured, while the train continued on its course.
Toledo dispatch reports all local employees of the New Central railroad have been served notices of proposed wage reductions. Clerks face a seven cent per hour cut, or 56 cents daily, with steeper cuts expected for other classes of workers.
Washington reports that prohibition conditions in Ohio require the personal attention of Commissioner Haynes. He will spend Friday in Columbus with state enforcement officer Russell to discuss law violations in several parts of Ohio. Saturday he will visit Cincinnati to confer with enforcement Officer Flora about illicit distilleries.
By execution directed to me the sale takes place at 1 pm behind Swanson furniture on Court Street Athens Ohio. The property of Fred Lloyd atenn Trucking Co. items include dresser kitchen cabinet oil stove brass bed iron bed and more. Sale conducted by Constable MARINER.
An execution sale will take place December 24 1921 at 2 pm at Moler Auto Sales Co garage East Carpenter Street Athens Ohio. The property to be sold is a Dart touring car belonging to J F Smiley following a Chas Bethel sale on October 28 1921 as overseen by Constable E C Mariner.
Levi Click is killed when a train strikes an auto at a crossing in Findlay on December 21. A soft snap is hard to find in the report.
Fifteen thousand rare postage stamps from early issues, highly sought by collectors, were uncovered in the archives of the Turkish minister of finance in Constantinople.
A Cuban commercial mission to Washington seeks tariff relief to protect sugar as Cuba’s economic lifeline and political stability. The piece traces Cuba’s history from Spanish rule through independence struggles, foreign influence, and ties with the United States, arguing against tariff policies that could cripple Cuban recovery and threaten regional harmony.
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